 Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the match preview Everton vs Southampton Gooderson Park three o'clock. This game feels massive for so many reasons. Number one reason being Everton has got to win this game. There's nothing else, they've got to win this game. Yeah, there's no way to go other than the three points. The draw isn't even an acceptable result now for Everton. It's a home game against a rival. We've lost three own games on the run. We've lost four of the last five of Gooderson. And we've come back from the well cup, three defeats in four games. So it's a must, must win for Everton. It's a huge game, man. Have we lost now the last four at home? We've lost three of the last four, four of the last five. Obviously, when I'm at the FA Cup in the bottom three, it just bulbs the point behind us. You know, you just can't understate how just huge it is, because we know the club just seems to be in free fall. The whole thing seems to be free fall at the moment. Frank Lampard is clinging on by his nails. If he was to lose this game, you'd have to sack him. You just have to sack him. You know, we know there's a demonstration after the game, which obviously for fans to voice their opinions, concerns about what's going on, we fully back them in that, because it's simply not good enough. We're sitting here recording this and Everton have been linked to players, but as we record this, there doesn't seem to be any... Nothing's close. Nothing's close. We're linked to the players that other clubs are linked with. Playing the team here in the bottom three, we're playing West Ham who are just above us next week. These are, for me, these are just two games that I honestly believe that if we don't get at least four points out of, that we are so much more trouble than we were last season with the fixtures that come after them. I think that I'm not saying I win on Saturday Cures, anything, but it's the start, hasn't it? It's got to be the start, it's got to be. We've already beaten Southampton this season, and they're on a pole run in the league as well. We've just got to get the three points. Everton, you look at the league table and depending on other results, Everton could end up as high as eight as 13 on Saturday night with a victory. Obviously all of those results are not going to go that way, where Everton jumped that much, but that would certainly be... You'd put six points down between Everton and Southampton. We've had the home games we keep throwing away, Leicester around us, Wolves around us, we lost both of them. Brighton's slight difference, but we still lost our own. You've got to start beating the teams around you, and Everton aren't beating anyone. Three wins in 18 games is absolutely diabolical for any manateur, any set of players anyway. One winning 12 is where we're at at the moment, which is embarrassing as well. From somewhere, they've got to re-energise themselves. It's got to be Saturday. Like you've just said, we've got Southampton, and we've got Westam away. Westam are level with us on points. Southampton are three points behind us. Everton have got to be looking for at least four points on those two games, if not more. Westam will be tough on Saturday. Nathan Jones, I think they've lost six Premier League games on the run at the moment. They had a good moral boost on victory at the Palace and the Cup. He's trying to get that ten and he brought in all the shit that's trying to bring in Alcarazwell, the striker from South America. So they're trying to kickstart something. Everton can't give them any more encouragement. It's got to be a performance that talks to the fans. There's going to be a busch welcome and all that. The crowd are trying to do their bit. And it's up to the players to start doing their bit because whether you keep hearing the good lads in that dressing room and you want to do well for the club, good lads don't lose as many games as we've lost. They don't win one game in 12. You've got to give everything to the cause. You've got to go out and give everything to the cause. You don't capitulate like we did against Brighton. And on Saturday, it's the halfway point Saturday, the 19th game of the season and Everton have got to start a match on some points. Yeah, because we are in very much the same situation as we were last season. The start of one win in 14 was thrown about for Rafa Benitez. If we don't win on Saturday, then you can just present that for Frank Lampard. And if that got him the sack, then really should get Frank Lampard the sack. But then what it does is it points to a bigger picture of failures at the football club, which I think we're all well aware of and I think there's plenty of evidence to suggest that. There has to be change, but in terms of the game itself, we saw the moral boost and draw at Manchester City. We come into the Brighton game. For me, I don't think we paid them enough respect for how good they are now, how well tactically, how terrible we were on the night now we set up. Manchester United, again, they take bits from me, but have we got to stay with that? Have we got to stay, even though it's a team, but always do we have to stay with the five at the back and make sure the full backs of the wing backs are pushing on and giving us that weight and getting the Marey Grey, maybe playing behind Dominic Harvill-Lewin. Yeah, I think so. I think I don't see. I don't see the value in switching again, because when we go to Westamon, quite sure you play three at the back again. So rather than messing with it, try to dig in and make yourself difficult to beat. I think that whether us as fans like it, don't like it, whatever, it's about putting points on the board and I think if you just left the team, the shame from the shitty game to the bright game, I certainly don't think we've been done for one. I think we've been in the game. It is a difficult one and I appreciate that for this game because we will be seen as a team that we've got to go and beat them and that means more attacking players on the pitch. Again, I still think if you have three at the back and you have the wing backs properly, you can't have attacking players on the wing. It can be very attacking if you do it well and you've got the right players out there. I looked at the last game and it's brightening the way we played it and how rigid 4-3-3 was and how the Marey Graves stuck out on the wing and had no way to go and didn't really use the abilities he's got of getting the ball, getting past the facemen and then using his pace. He was stuck out wide. To me, it's going to be difficult because obviously we know there's no Alex O'Wobee. I imagine probably the Corale just coming in. He's actually did all right against Manchester United and he did become that player. Maybe him breaking as well and having that he can be the person who breaks in midfield. Having the Marey Graves pace, having done as someone you can use as a focal point, you've got to switch it round and look at it and go, it's not defensive. It just shoots the place we have because I just don't think the 4-3-3 has worked the way he's wanted it to work. There's no one really breaking from midfield. Alex O'Wobee of late has just got clogged up in the midfield without breaking forward. Doesn't really arrive late into the box or something like that. Those wide men don't come inside. The full backs don't push on because I think they're both scared of leaving the two centre backs without the pace. It becomes very rigid and there's no fluidity and there's no movement. In the walls game, the last minute, no one's coming back and taking the ball off to it and then moving it through the pitch and we've only really seen that against Crystal Palace who's actually gone through the middle of the pitch and moving it. I just remember the Brighton game when the team came out and a lot of people just that night there was an audible groud when we saw the team and I think it could be the same Saturday. I think it's all about hard work Saturday and digging in and getting something out of the game and I think that formation gives us the best opportunity of that. Yeah, I totally agree. I think the core, wherever he was on, united in the second half he broke into the box three or four times. Tried to get on the end of things. He did, of course, score a goal in this fixture last season, a great goal as well. And that was a game in which he was bluffing when he says his first game but he had him and Alan as two holding my field but both of them were pushing up and down and stuff and the core, aye, was at his best for Wofford when he was allowed to break into the box when he scored goals and evidently don't have goals from my field potentially get you the goal so he was coming for me and I think that was great being able to roam off-dome, make sense as well and then the manager might have a call to me and you know, at the wing backs maybe you'd look at if he really wanted to go on track and play McNeill and Gordon just the three wing backs if he wanted and I don't think he will think that be a little bit too brave for him but certainly, you know, their options they're united, they put both of them on for the wing backs for the last 10-15 minutes so if you want to get more on track on players, you could do that I think he'll go a little bit more reserved on that but there is that flexibility to be able to do that and then obviously the three at the back you've got Ben Godfrey's pace in there which you need and for me, that would be that would be the team the core, aye, just coming for a wall with Grey often I think that gives just the best opportunity and Martin, it'll be Coleman and Michael and Co that's the wing backs but they have to push high then we're going to do it, they have to play higher up the pitch and then you'll have phone honouring and Garner to sit and if they sit in front of the back three then the full backs can go really high and the core, aye, can bomb on and you've still got enough bodies there and you're not getting caught and actually with having the three in your midfielders can break to the edge of the box as well, whichever one there is Saltampton obviously in poor form they're looking to change it so, you know, for Everton they've got to look at this game and go, these are bottom of the league the bottom of the table for a reason we sure, I mean doesn't really matter cos Wolves were bottom and they come last weekend they went very good on that day and Everton still managed to lose the game so Everton have got to and the thing I don't think they did very well against Wolves and they should have done, they got the early goal and then didn't push on and we saw this is something that started this bad run was united around and we scored after five minutes and they went, oh, we better sit back now and, you know, what you need to do is you get these teams on the ropes you've got to put them to bed and I know people will say well there's no goals in the team to do that but anyone could score a goal you've just got to have the ball they've got to be working on crosses and shot, I say it all the time and it sounds a little bit stupid at times but the more attempts you have a goal the more chance you've got to score a goal otherwise you are hoping to be perfect for the one or two opportunities you get an edit and a far front perfect you know, you need a goal like the Marey Greyser at Manchester City it's that's not happening every week is it so, seeing a very interesting step before that since the starter last season the Marey Greyser scored more goals than any Everton player in the Premier League he's got eight and within that he's had the run of 21 games with that a goal and 13 games with that a goal in the two the 18 months he's been here so that tells you, hey, how important he is to us when people go Greys, crap or whatever it's just inconsistent the way it is but he's still one of our best threats if not our best he's got more out of him when he's playing sensually can I even sensually he's got the flexibility to move on he's a second striker I think he's got so much more out of him when he gets stuck on one of the wings he can still take up those positions but in a role behind the striker but it's not rigid I know you look at the goal he scored against Man City and he is cutting in he can do that anyway but when he's stuck out there and you're looking at this in the Brighton game he's stuck the fullback is looking after him he picks the ball up I don't think he's great at making his mind up at what he wants to do I think that's obviously one of his issues but when he plays that central role because he can go anywhere he wants it just opens the possibilities up to him don't forget he's quick so if he is off the top you've got the flick on option as well he's peisi probably one of our quickest players look at the couple of goals he's scored in the last couple of years obviously this year against Forrest the goal he gets long kick comes in central and he's in and the goal he scored last year against Bailey but it's the same he's through the middle and he's through the middle and the trucks are under Allison so we know in them areas he's dangerous we don't really have that from anybody else so that's why they would be they would be the front two for me and I think then you're asking James Coleman who I thought did the job quite well till his legs went against United in terms of attack certainly second half when he scored himself you've got to ask him to do that again and maybe you say to him give me an hour there and he places you're on that side up and down we'll see but if they push high enough you can make those decisions as you go through the game it might be Mason Holgate but we'll tune it up after an hour it's up and then Coleman's so you've got to give the man to them options but I think for us if you do play that four metres when you're talking about like you said before it doesn't have to be a negative four metres Chelsea won the league but that's fair to play it alright I have Harry Kane and I'm picking two teams that are at the top then but what I mean is you can kind of play this four metres and where you attack as well and the reason why I mentioned Chelsea they had Victor Moses as a right wing back at one stage he was obviously a winger and people said he's a lazy winger next minute he's a right wing back and did well for Conti and Anthony Gordon in this four metres it's a way to get him into the side for now while Patterson's out I think it gives it could give flank lampard options but it also is a case of a bit of safety in numbers as well let's have a look at Southampton's team what they've been playing recently so they've been playing they've played three at the back as well very similar to what we're talking about gives them an opportunity to have two up front we've got the pace of Adams up there as well obviously it's a real threat a little set piece you look at their wing backs as well lot of energy up and down they haven't been great at it but again they're looking to take it back and then we were linked with them at the beginning of the seed list to have a look at this game 17, goals 4, 1 assist two shots for the game he was obviously someone we were linked to a very mobile striker who pops up with a goal now and again as we can see they've got probably the same one of the main issues they've got is the same as us it's goals isn't it they've got a problem with goals as well but they're obviously going into the market because they understand that they're exactly the manager they've understood that's their problem back in the manager and let's remember so we go into this game they're the team bottom of the league let's take confidence from that let's go out there puff our chest and go these are under pressure as well they're playing at home they're trying they haven't conceded the 17 goals in the last 10 games after conceding just 7 in the opening so we've got to get back to that Saltampton have conceded from 13.5% of their shots first in the Premier League which is the highest so get shots away whereas only Newcastle have conceded less than Everton in terms of the shots they've faced so for Everton from an attacking perspective the day gets shots away I think the minus 18 in the Premier League so it tells you where you are that's why having 7 and 8 shots in a game isn't good enough this has got to be a game Everton read just the 23-24 shots for you're the manager or the coaching staff you're saying to the manager get yourself off a yard and have a go don't want to call the loom get on the end of things get crosses in put the pressure under them the bottom of the league for a reason make them feel that it's got to play its part in that I'm sure it will see what happens it's going to be an interesting day for all all concerns let's just hope it all goes well and we get the 3 points and the players turn up I know the fans will turn up and we get the 3 points and we start creating positive headlines instead of these terrible negative ones of course they're there for a reason they're there for absolutely for a reason and it's right but let's see if we can create some positive headlines on Saturday night like you said before it really is stick or bush for the manager we win the game give some self-restay of execution and a bit longer to try to get this going I think anything other than a winning Everton will be looking for a new manager for Southampton they're going to try and start turning things around by bringing people in so just before they get into any kind of running and get more players in we've got to make sure that we can get the most out of this on Saturday it's up to Everton it'll be a difficult game they'll come in and make it difficult Nathan Jones is trying to put his stamp on it and it's up to us to make sure they don't get the chance there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one it is absolutely huge huge game in the context of Everton's season and everything going on right now and maybe more maybe more, maybe long implications so let us know your thoughts in the comments don't forget give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more exclusive daily videos join us over on Toffy TV premiere the QR code for you 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